Dabur India Limited

Selected passages from the FDA letter

Quoted FDA text from the published dataset. These selected excerpts are not the complete letter.

Passage 1

Your firm failed to establish an adequate quality control unit with the responsibility and authority to approve or reject all components, drug product containers, closures, in-process materials, packaging materials, labeling, and drug products and the authority to review production records to assure that no errors have occurred or, if errors have occurred, that they have been fully investigated (21 CFR 211.22(a)).

Passage 2

Your firm failed to ensure that laboratory records included complete data derived from all tests necessary to ensure compliance with established specifications and standards (21 CFR 211.194(a)).

Passage 3

Your firm failed to establish and follow adequate written procedures for cleaning and maintenance of equipment (21 CFR 211.67(b)).

Passage 4

You failed to demonstrate that your cleaning practices are adequate to remove potential contaminants and to prevent drug product carry over in shared equipment used to manufacture your OTC drug products.

Passage 5

Your firm failed to establish adequate written procedures for production and process control designed to assure that the drug products you manufacture have the identity, strength, quality, and purity they purport or are represented to possess, and your firm’s quality control unit did not review and approve those procedures, including any changes (21 CFR 211.100(a)).

Passage 6

You failed to validate your manufacturing process for your OTC drug products. During the inspection, you stated that you had not performed process validation for **(b)(4)** of the **(b)(4)** drug products you manufacture on Unit **(b)(4)** lines. You also stated you had not performed process validation for **(b)(4)** of the **(b)(4)** drug products you manufacture on Unit **(b)(4)** lines.